High powered attorney Jesse has received threats from a man about to be released from prison. The added stress makes it harder for her to open up emotionally and physically in her sessions with Emmanuelle. The threats continue and Jesse soon finds she may have to fear for her very life.
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Tag Archives: USA
Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Wes Anderson, Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Comedy, Drama, Adventure
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s, as a young boy and girl fall in love they are moved to run away together. Various factions of the town mobilize to search for them and the town is turned upside down — which might not be such a bad thing.
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Finding Forrester (2000) Gus Van Sant, Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F. Murray Abraham, Drama
Because of scoring exceptionaly high on a state wide standardized exam and being an exceptionally good basketball player Jamal Wallace is sent to a prestigious prep school in Manhattan.
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Chinatown (1974) Roman Polanski, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Crime, Drama, Mystery
JJ ‘Jake’ Gittes is a private detective who seems to specialize in matrimonial cases. He is hired by Evelyn Mulwray when she suspects her husband Hollis, builder of the city’s water supply system, of having an affair.
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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock, Tallulah Bankhead, John Hodiak, Walter Slezak, Thriller, War
In the Atlantic during WWII, a ship and a German U-boat are involved in a battle and both are sunk. The survivors from the ship gather in one of the boats. They are from a variety of backgrounds: an international journalist, a rich businessman, the radio operator, a nurse, a steward, a sailor and an engineer with communist tendencies. Trouble starts when they pull a man out of the water who turns out to be from the U-boat.
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Friday Foster (1975) Arthur Marks, Pam Grier, Yaphet Kotto, Godfrey Cambridge, Action
Friday Foster, an ex-model magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America.
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Contact (1997) Robert Zemeckis, Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway has long been interested in contact to faraway lands, a love fostered in her childhood by her father, Ted Arroway, who passed away when she was nine years old leaving her then orphaned. Her current work in monitoring for extraterrestrial life is based on that love and is in part an homage to her father.
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After Hours (1985) Martin Scorsese, Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Comedy, Crime, Drama
A meek word processor impulsively travels to Manhattan’s Soho District to date an attractive but apparently disturbed young woman and finds himself trapped there in a nightmarishly surreal vortex of improbable coincidences and farcical circumstances.
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The Gunrunner (1989) Nardo Castillo, Kevin Costner, Sara Botsford, Paul Soles, Crime, Drama
1926. The Chinese Civil War. Drifter Ted Beaubien is captured and forced to witness his girlfriend’s execution. He finally escapes and vows to avenge her death by taking on a deadly mission to buy guns abroad and smuggle them back. Arriving in his hometown, Ted is shocked to find his elderly mother and younger brother George are penniless.
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One-Trick Pony (1980) Robert M. Young, Paul Simon, Blair Brown, Rip Torn, Drama
Jonah (Paul Simon) is an aging rock star trying to put together a new album in the face Read More »